Once a Stranger

I've scanned the Harry Potter fanarts I bought at the Anime convention I was at a few weeks ago, you can see them here.

Website of the fanartist: http://www.la-pensine-d-harry-potter.com/

I'm like, so not into HP right now, but there's this fic :

The World, A Book
BY busaikko
Snape/Lupin
"I don't remember being young," he says. . . "I think that I died, and I came here."

It is fucking gorgeous, and it's a lovely metafic, and you should go read it RIGHT NOW.

Ganked from amewarashi

Provide a character/characters and I will Sort them into a Hogwarts House. I'll also try to explain why and maybe talk about their ~adventures~ at Hogwarts.

Howdy. My first official day of unemployment started with realising the internet wasn't working at home x_x happily, the thing got rectified this evening.

In case anybody wonders, I am not currently reading any HP fanfics. I'm not sure when I'll get the taste back (if ever?) feel free to defriend me if that fandom was all that interested you in me >_>;;

On the other hand, I'm finding more and more joy in the small and quiet but lovely asoiaf fandom. Yeah, I do mean fanfics. Lots of them are surprisingly good and well characterized, for those of you who love the books, would be curious and didn't know :p Theon's my new favourite character to slash srsly.

In a fit of madness, I apparently volunteered to write a ship_manifesto for Gerald/Damien. ^_^ That's going to be fun to do, even if there's an excellent essay on the ship out there which I can't surpass.

Need I say SPOILERS? Totally spoilers.

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chapter 21 to chapter 28

( spoiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilers! )

up to chapter 10

( hitherby SPOILERS )

Yes, I am totally going to spam you guys during the night!

Find out your Harry Potter personality at LiquidGeneration!

Aaaaaaand only 2 hours and a half before we get new canon to :
analyze
criticize
interprete
squee about
rant about
wank about
fanwanks and rationnalizes
make fun of
parody
warp
slash
torture
find subtext in
find double entendre in
ignore
ignore parts and using parts of
write A/U about
imagine hidden scenes of thereof
imagine sequels of thereof
imagine prequel of thereof
bring back dead character of thereof

and the everything else!

I love new canons. It's like fandom fuels. Even when it's bad, it's always something to react to and that is GREAT.

ETA meme stolen from ariesathena

Put the books in order from favorite to least favorite:
1. PoA
2. OotP
3. HBP
4. GoF
5. CoS
1. PS

How many times have you read the series: twice, one in French (up to Ootp), one in English. HBP only read once;

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and no time to do the rest!

So instead of using the holliday to read Reaper's Gale like any sensible fan of Erikson who just bought to book would do (or, for that matter, Feast of Souls, which I finally found), I've been reading a book called Devices & Desire by KJ Parker which I had bought on a whim several months ago and which I only started reading a couple of days ago for the maion reason that it's a paperbook that actually fit into my handbag to read on the subway which, of course, neither Reaper's Gale nor Feast of Souls do. (I hate hate hate hardcover and the fact I'll still buy them because I have no patience, and I hate hate hate people who like their books heavy, pretty and overpriced who makes the making of such books saleable when it would be so much better having a nice, flexible, small book that fits into a bag for anytime you have a free moment to read!)

That book is brillant.

( Device & Desire (no spoilers) )

( Spiderman 3 (no spoilers) )

I'm not in the mood to read fanfics at all, so I hadn't read your lattest gorgeous story, that's why. Not because I hated it.
And apparently Tonks' a Hufflepuff, wtf? (not that I dislike Hufflepuff, i think they're awesome and fearsome, but Tonks' a lazy, individualist ass, if there ever was one)

Happy belated birthday klynie1! Many hugs and good wishes. I hope it was a good day. Sorry I missed wishing it to you *blushes* Would you want a drabble?

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So, I made icons...

1. 2.

( these are all similar derivated icons, dude )

and I also made a little icon makeover, includng a bunch of Utena icons. I've been feeling in a bit of an Utena mood lately. I've decided I should always always have a creepy!anthy icon. Because creepy!anthy rocks. There.

I've been following aubrem's very interesting lattest discussion about decentralisation with attention (LJ's tracking device rocks mightily, I cannot say that too many times ♥). Being both a Snape/Lupin OTPist and a very big fan of dark fictions, I feel, of course, concerned.

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You know how I have this thing for manipulative, lying Remus?

Okay, someone wrote the ultimate manipulative Remus fic. It's a brillant piece of writing, so don't miss it :

How to disable a Sneakoscope by purple_chalk
(Remus knows exactly what he's doing. Snape/Lupin, NC-17)
It's brillant. The characterizations are a killer. Everything in canon from Hogwarts years to the end of PoA, Remus' relationships with all the Marauders, Snape and Harry (and various OCs) in one dazzling rush of narration. And it all explains how Remus lies so much better than I could ever do in any meta.

Taken from schemingreader

1. Take your OTP
2. List your personal canon for those characters. So the stuff that has nothing whatsoever to do with the books, but in your head is irrefutably what would have happened

I have three HP OTPs, Snape/Lupin, Sirius/Snape, and Sirius/Regulus so I'm going to mix and match the three. (they're not really OTP facts, mostly characters facts)

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